"I saw her and [boyfriend Liam Payne] a couple of weeks ago and they looked really happy," Cowell said this past spring. "I believed for a long while that her big thing was to make records. It's a huge commitment to do one of these shows."

"I would love to see Cheryl on a garage record, just because people won't expect it," he revealed in July. "Also, if it's done correctly - and I know how the track was sounding as a demo - it would bang in a club. People would be like, 'Oh man - that's cool for Cheryl'.